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METHODIST REVIEW.

(BIMONTHLY.)

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VOLUME LXXVIII.-FIFTH SERIES, VOLUME XII.

WILLIAM V. KELLEY, D.D., EDITOR.

NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS.
CINCINNATI: CURTS & JENNINGS.
1896.

CONTENTS OF THE VOLUME.

JANUARY-FEBRUARY.

EDGAR A. POE'S ADDENDA TO HIS "EUREKA," WITH COMMENTS.

AN INSPIRING CHAPTER IN METHODIST HISTORY....

JAMES MUDGE, D.D., Lowell, Mass.

THE FORCES WHICH DETERMINE CHARACTER............

H. H. FAIRALL, D.D., Editor Iowa Methodist, Iowa City, Ia.

DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE IMMANENCE....

HENRY GRAHAM, D.D., Rutland, Vt.

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DOCTRINE OF THE FUTURE LIFE IN THE BOOK OF JOB ......

President SAMUEL PLANTZ, Ph.D., D.D., Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.

45

THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF BALZAC...

60

A. H. TUTTLE, D.D., Newark, N. J.

THE RETURN TO FAITH........

66

Professor A. C. ARMSTRONG, JR., M.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAYER..

77

Rev. WILLIAM JONES, LL.D., Dresden, Mo.

THAT PSEUDO-JUDICIAL DECLARATION OF 1888-A FRIENDLY AP-

PEAL TO CONSERVATIVE EXPERTS....

81

President W. F. WARREN, S.T.D., LL.D., Boston University, Boston, Mass.

THE REAL JUDICIAL DECLARATION OF 1888.....

87

Hon. G. G. REYNOLDS, Brooklyn, N. Y.

REASON AND SENTIMENT AS FACTORS IN SOCIAL PROGRESS......

President C. W. SUPER, Ph.D., LL.D., Ohio University, Athens, O.

94

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS:

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS.....

109

Poe's "Eureka" and Addenda, 111; Historical Perspective, 115; The Episte-

mology of the Saints, 120.

THE ARENA......

125

A Friendly Word with My Critics, 125; "Of What Use is It?" 130.

THE ITINERANTS' CLUB....

131

How Shall the Church Utilize the Revised Version? 131; How to Win Congre-

gations (Continued), 133; Progress in Conference Course of Study during 1895,

135.

ARCHEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL RESEARCH...

136

Archæology and Old Testament Criticism, 136; Writing in Homer, 139.

MISSIONARY REVIEW..

141

Methodist Polity in Foreign Fields, 141; The Situation in Madagascar, 143;

American Missions in Turkey, 144.

Diggle's Religious Doubt, 158; Hurst's Literature of Theology, 161; Steele's

Half-Hours with St. Paul, and Other Bible Readings, 162; Smith's Why I am

Not an Agnostic, 164; Aldrich's Unguarded Gates, and Other Poems, 165;

Wheeler's Our Industrial Utopia, and Its Unhappy Citizens, 167; Hill's The Prin-

ciples of Rhetoric, 170; Baird's The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict

of Nantes, 171; Jackson's Papers of the American Society of Church History, 174;

MISCELLANEOUS, 175.

MARCH-APRIL.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CRARY, D.D.......

F. D. BOVARD, Ph.D., D.D., Alameda, Cal.

177

CONDITIONS OF AUTHORITATIVE BIBLICAL CRITICISM............ 191

President H. A. BUTTZ, D.D., LL.D., Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J.

OUR BENEVOLENCES..

205

H. N. HERRICK, D.D., Muncie, Ind.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA...

T. B. NEELY, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.

THE WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS..

J. N. FRADENBURGH, D.D., Greenville, Pa.

THE "DIVINE COMEDY.".

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Professor L. O. KUHNS, M.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH... 260

JOHN PEARSON, D.D., Cincinnati, O.

MISREPRESENTATIONS OF MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES.........

H. K. CARROLL, LL.D., Religious Editor Independent, New York city.

THE LAW OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AS TO AMUSE-

MENTS-A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION.....

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273

284

First Paper, Hon. H. L. SIBLEY, Marietta, O.
NEY, D.D., White Plains, N. Y.

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS:

Second Paper, ENSIGN MCCHES-

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS.

293

The Power of Appointment, 294; Inadvisability of Districting Bishops, 299.

THE ARENA.

306

First Friendly Response to my Friendly Appeal, 306; A Reply to Dr. Warren, 308;

Foreknowledge and Contingency, 308; Matter-Organic and Inorganic, 309.

Study of Missions in Theological Seminaries, 318; Missionary Problems in Japan,

319.

FOREIGN OUTLOOK...

321

SUMMARY OF THE REVIEWS AND Magazines..

326

BOOK NOTICES......

Foster's Creation: God in Space and Time, 329; Satterlee's A Creedless Gospel

and the Gospel Creed, 331: Scudder's The Witness of Denial, 333; Russell's Let-

ters of Matthew Arnold, 333; Coleridge's Anima Poetae, 337; Forbes's Memories

and Studies of War and Peace, 339; Tiffany's This Goodly Frame, the Earth, 341;

Mackay's From Far Formosa, 343; MISCELLANEOUS, 343.

329

MAY-JUNE.

THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY

Professor JOHN BIGHAM, Ph.D., De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind.

JOHN KEATS-HIS CHARACTER AND WORKS.....

Rev. J. B. KENYON, Lit.D., Syracuse, N. Y.

AFTER CAPITALISM, WHAT?.

Rev. R. F. BISHOP, Chillicothe, O.

CATHOLICITY

Rev. H. A. REED, Lancaster, N. Y.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE SOUTH..............

President DANIEL STEVENSON, D.D., Union College, Barbourville, Ky.

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THE THEORETICAL AND THE PRACTICAL......

394

Professor G. A. COE, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

THE PERSONAL ELEMENT IN SOCIAL REFORM..

403

Professor WILLIAM MACDONALD, Ph.D., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.

COMPARATIVE RELIGION..

409

J. F. CHAFFEE, D.D., Minneapolis, Minn.

METHODS AND PRINCIPLES-A STUDY IN METHODIST POLITY... 420

Rev. D. G. DOWNEY, M.A., Stamford, Conn.

An Elective Judiciary, 444; "Christian " Rationalism, 445; The Ripening Experi-

ence of Life, 450.

THE ARENA.

462

Diocese and District, 462; Church Papers for Sunday Reading, 463; The Soul a

Substantial Entity, 465; Is Dr. Wheeler Right? 467.

THE ITINERANTS' CLUB...

468

"Baptized for the Dead."-1 Cor. xv, 29, 468; The Minister as a Comforter, 469;

How to Study the Bible, 471.

ARCHEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL RESEARCH..

473

The Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, 473; A Rising Conservative Biblicist,

477.

MISSIONARY REVIEW.

478

A Quadrennium of Methodist Foreign Missions, 478: The German Work in the

United States, 479; The American Board Mission in Turkey, 481.

FOREIGN OUTLOOK...

482

488

SUMMARY OF The Reviews and Magazines..

BOOK NOTICES..

Thompson's The World and the Wrestlers, 492; Bennett's The Theology of the

Old Testament, 496: Walden's The Great Meaning of Metanoia, 497; Prothero's

Letters and Verses of Arthur Pernhyn Stanley, D.D., 498; Godkin's Reflections

and Comments, 503; Payne's Little Leaders, 506; Mahaffy's The Empire of the

Ptolemies, 507; Lowell's Joan of Arc, 509; Mrs. Nevius's The Life of John Liv-

ingston Nevius, 510; MISCELLANEOUS, 511.

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